Metro Briefing | New York: Oceanside: Infant's Body Found In Laundry

A worker at Oceanside Linen Services discovered a dead baby in a bundle of laundry from South Nassau Communities Hospital on Tuesday night, the police said. The worker was sorting a cart of soiled hospital linens when he found the infant girl's body, wrapped in a blanket, the authorities said. The baby had a plastic identification bracelet around her ankle that linked her to the hospital. The baby was born prematurely, on Sunday, weighing 10 ounces and living for only 30 minutes. Hospital staffers wrapped the body and placed it in a trundle in the morgue, said Lt. Dennis Farrell of the Nassau County Police Department. He added that someone probably mistook the wrapped body for soiled linens. SOPHIA CHANG (NYT)